Orville Wright19th August, American
Co-inventor of First Successful Airplane
Rosa Luxemburg5th March, German, Polish
Marxist Theorist
Marcel Proust10th July, French
French novelist
Ernest Rutherford30th August, New Zealander, British
Physicist, Chemist
James Weldon Johnson17th June, American
Author
Friedrich Ebert4th February, German
Politician
Cordell Hull2nd October, American
Secretary of State, USA
Paul Valery30th October, French
Poet
Jack Butler Yeats29th August, Irish, British
Irish artist
Grazia Deledda27th September, Italian
Nobel Laureate in Literature
Victor Grignard6th May, French
Chemist
Guangxu Emperor14th August, Chinese
Emperor of China
Karl Liebknecht13th January, German
Lawyer
Ioannis Metaxas12th April, Greek
Politician, Officer, Military personnel
Stephen Crane1st November, American
Writer, Journalist, Poet, Baseball player,
Pietro Badoglio28th September, Italian
Prime Minister
Emily Carr13th December, Canadian
Painter, Autobiographer
Pop Warner5th April, American
Football coach
Theodore Dreiser27th August, American
Novelist
David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty17th January, Irish, British
Politician, Military personnel
Arthur Griffith31st March, Irish
Former President of Dáil Éireann
Guillermo Kahlo26th October, Mexican
Photographer
Albert Lebrun29th August, French
Politician
W. H. Davies3rd July, Welsh
British poet
John Millington Synge16th April, Irish
Playwright, Poet
John Chilembwe31st May, Malawian
Pastor
Baroness Mary Vetsera19th March, Austrian
Noblewomen
Charles Freer Andrews12th February, British
Priest
Heinrich Mann27th March, Czech
Novelist
Lesya Ukrainka25th February, Ukrainian
Writer
Giacomo Balla18th July, Italian
Painter, Sculptor, Composer
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James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon8th January, British, Northern Irish
Politician
Kunikida Doppo30th August, Japanese
Novelist
Nicolae Iorga17th January, Romanian
politician, linguist, geopolitician, poet
John Langalibalele Dube22nd February, South African
Essayist
Stjepan Radić11th June, Croatian
Political
Walter Bradford Cannon19th October, American
Physiologist
Gjergj Fishta23rd October, Albanian
Poet
Aarnoud van Heemstra22nd July
Politician
Sergei Bulgakov28th June, Russian
Theologian
František Kupka23rd September, Czech
Artist
Alexander von Zemlinsky14th October, Austrian
Composer
Maurice Garin3rd March, French, Italian
Bicycler
William Stern29th April, German
Psychologist
Georges Rouault27th May, French
Curator, Painter, Graphic artist
William McDougall22nd June, British
psychologist, university teacher
Lyonel Feininger17th July, American
Painter, Artist
Émile Borel7th January, French
Mathematician, Politician, University teacher
Fielding H. Yost30th April, American
American Football Player
Ernst Zermelo27th July, German
Mathematician, Philosopher, University teacher
Oscar Stanton De Priest9th March, American
American Politician
Leonid Andreyev21st August, Russian
playwright, writer, journalist, lawyer
Florine Stettheimer19th August, American
Painter
Claus Schilling5th July, German
Military physician, Non-fiction writer
Seebohm Rowntree7th July, British
Researcher
Margaret Floy Washburn25th July, American
Psychologist
John Sloan2nd August, American
Artist
Hubert Cecil Booth4th July, British
Engineer
Newton D. Baker3rd December, American
Politician
Lottie Dod24th September, British
Tennis Player
Louise-Rose-Etiennette Gerard5th April, French
Christian Morgenstern6th May, German
Poet, Writer, Translator, Literary editor,
Samuel Hopkins Adams26th January, American
Author
Kōtoku Shūsui5th November, Japanese
Social leader
Florence R. Sabin9th November, American
Medical Scientist
Jovan Dučić17th February, Bosnian, Serbian
Poet
Luisa Tetrazzini29th June, Italian
Soprano Singer
Willem Mengelberg28th March, Dutch
Conductor
Frederick Pethick-Lawrence, 1st Baron Pethick-Lawrence28th December, British
Politician
Luigi Sturzo26th November, Italian
Priest
José Enrique Rodó15th July, Uruguayan
Essayist
Clarence Hudson White8th April, American
Photographer
Dun Karm Psaila18th October, Maltese
Priest
Cyrus Avery31st August, American
Public servant
Shiga Kiyoshi7th February, Japanese
Physician
John Henry Taylor19th March, British
Professional Golfer
Olga Preobrajenska2nd February, Russian
Ballerina
Erich von Tschermak15th November, Austrian
Agronomist
Ovide Decroly23rd July, Belgian
Teacher
Lee Shubert25th March, American
Theatrical producer
Ralph Hodgson9th September, British
Poet
Giovanni Giorgi27th November, Italian
Physicist
Camille Huysmans26th May, Belgian
Politician
Vernon L. Parrington3rd August, American
Literary historian
Howard Taylor Ricketts9th February, American
Pathologist
B.M. Bower15th November, American
Author
Harriet Boyd Hawes11th October, American
Archaeologist
Emiliano Chamorro Vargas11th May, Nicaraguan
Political Leader
Edgar J. Goodspeed23rd October, American
Theologian
Louise Homer30th April, American
Singer
Alexander Alexeyevich Gorsky6th August, Russian
Choreographer
Lugenia Burns Hope19th February, American
Social reformer
Eleanor Clarke Slagle13th October, American
Social worker
Sakai Toshihiko15th January, Japanese
Writer